UK heatwave threatens aged .co.uk #domain names
It’s the hottest day in the UK ever, or at least since King Arthur roamed Britain’s leafy woods in full chain mail gear. With temperatures rising above 108 Fahrenheit (42.2 C) the British royal subjects are facing a scorching summer heat. Several million domain names are also in danger, as they were registered with domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Winter storm power loss led to mass #domain deletion
The ongoing winter storm in the US has led to extended power loss. Millions of customers in several states are without power, among them Deep Freeze Domains. The secure domain registrar operates from Texas, a hard-hit state. After 16 hours without power and the depletion of generator fluid, the registrar’s secure assets were rendered unrecoverable. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign : Bad LLLL .com #domains will receive upgrade
There’s nothing worse than a bad LLLL .com domain and Verisign – managers of .com – is about to help you change that. “All domains contain microcode that can be tweaked and improved through system upgrades,” said chief microcode engineer at Verisign, Charles Babbage. “We are rolling out updates all the time, and this is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain #blockchain : Is #GoDaddy slowing down old #domains?
GoDaddy might be slowing down aged domain names, in an effort to prolong their lifespan, by conserving the power they consume when operating at 100%. After testing 232 domain names registered with GoDaddy in 1999 or earlier, they seemed to perform between 22% to 45% slower than newer domain names at the world’s biggest registrar. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ragazzo Greciano : “Many LLL .com domain are a-wortha zero”
In what appears to be shocking news to many hard-working domain investors, a new industry analysis is ruffling many a feather. Ragazzo Greciano, established domain analyst from Napoli, Italy, published a report on the current value of LLL .com domains. In a nutshell, they are worthless. “I calculate, the price for Chinese buyer, and extrapolate […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ domains : Registry scheduled downtime has been completed
The XYZ Registry successfully completed its scheduled downtime today, to maintain the freshness and validity of its .XYZ domain inventory. “At exactly 7:30am Pacific time, I pressed the big red reboot button we have here at XYZ, and every domain was power-cycled to ensure its microcode stays up to par,” said XYZ Registry founder and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bendgate II : More than 500,000,000 .XYZ domains prone to Registry bending
If you thought that the “Bendgate” problem was an isolated incident affecting the Apple iPhone 6, think again. According to new reports from nTLDStats, more than 500,000,000 .XYZ domain names, roughly half of the total number of registrations – suffer from QC issues during the registration process. “It’s a processing flaw, no doubt, the last […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .CO Registry: Active .com domains might corrode with time
A shocking new report from the Dot .CO Registry, managers of the dot .CO domains, reveals the real problems behind everyone’s beloved dot .com. The research, published at MicroDots Weekly, reveals that dot .com domains that remain active 24/7 as web sites, lose a crucial part of their microcode over time. “Without the microcommander module […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Breaking: Thousands of deleted domains recovered in operation ‘Domain Freedom’
Thousands of deleted domains believed to have been forever lost, were recovered Sunday morning in an unprecedented technological breakthrough. Domains registered as back as 1987, were restored in the master boot records of the registry, Verisign; the effort of microcode restoration lasted four months, in an operation dubbed ‘Domain Freedom‘. “We can definitely say […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.3D domain layering renders Registrars obsolete
A new process that was revealed at the international 3D Printing Hackathon in Santa Ana, California, is threatening the very existence of domain registrars as we know it. Long dependent on a number of functions provided by the registrars, domain owners in Hong Kong have developed a brand new method that replicates the domain microcode […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN proposal: Register domains jointly and save money
With Rod Beckstrom gone from the steering wheel of ICANN, the proposals for a technical revolution that would upstage old school thinking are pouring in. Fresh from the ICANN Labs is a new method that compresses domains, thus reducing the cost of ownership. “Our method and upcoming patent can be described as crazy, but it […]
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